Awards & Recognition

National Research and Professional Leadership Awards

• Trailblazer Award, National Institutes of Health—Stefan Zauscher
• Humboldt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation—Adrian Bejan

Professional Society Recognition

• Van C. Mow Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers—Tony Jun Huang

Early Career Awards

• Early Career Award, Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems—Miroslav Pajic

University and School Honors

• Graduate Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring (Duke University)—Jennifer West

• Distinguished Alumni Award (University of Illinois Department of Mechanical Science & Engineering)—Ken Gall

Media Recognition

• Top 1% of Highly Cited Researchers, Clarivate Analytics—David Mitzi and Benjamin Wiley

National Research and Professional Leadership Awards

• Member, Academia Mexicana de Ciencias (Mexico)—Adrian Bejan
• Benjamin Franklin Medal in Mechanical Engineering, Franklin Institute (United States of America)—Adrian Bejan 

Professional Society Recognition

• Fellow, Materials Research Society—David Mitzi
• Ralph Coats Roe Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers—Adrian Bejan
• Aerodynamics Award, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics—Kenneth C. Hall
• Dedicated Service Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers—Kenneth C. Hall
• Bingham Medalist, Society of Rheology—Michael Rubinstein

Early Career Awards

• IEEE-CS Technical Consortium on High Performance Computing Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers in High Performance Computing—Amanda Randles
• Grace Murray Hopper Award, Association for Computing Machinery—Amanda Randles
• Kalvi Fellow, National Academy of Sciences and the Kalvi Foundation—Guglielmo Scovazzi

University and School Honors

• Member, Bass Society of Fellows (Duke University)—Wilkins Aquino and Michail Zavlanos

Distinguished and Plenary Lectures

• Plenary speaker, Global Power and Propulsion Society-Shanghai Conference—Robert Kielb

National Academy of Engineering Membership

• Jennifer West

National Research and Professional Leadership Awards

• Member, National Academy of Inventors – Jennifer West

Early Career Awards

• Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers – Guglielmo Scovazzi
• Analytic Chemistry 2017 Young Innovator Award – Tony Jun Huang
• Bessel Prize, Humboldt Foundation – Stefano Curtarolo

University and School Honors

• 2017 Alumnus of the Year Award, (Politecnico di Torino) – Guglielmo Scovazzi

Distinguished and Plenary Lectures

• Distinguished Lecturer, Midwest Mechanics Seminar Series – John Dolbow
• Keynote Lecturer, Global Power & Propulsion Forum, Zurich, Switzerland – Bob Kielb
• Distinguished International Visitor Event, Durham University, United Kingdom – Adrian Bejan 

National Academy of Engineering Membership

• Elected in 2016 – Jennifer West

National Research and Professional Leadership Awards

• 2016 Nevada Medal, Desert Research Institute – Missy Cummings
• Bessel Research Award, Humboldt Foundation – Stefano Curtarolo
• Chevalier dans l'Ordre National du Mérite;  Directeur des relations entreprises, National Institute of Applied Sciences (France) – Sylvie Lorente

Professional Society Recognition

• 2016 Reed Aeronautics Award, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics – Earl Dowell
• Finalist, 2015 Gordon Bell Prize – Amanda Randles
• Editor, ASME Journal of Turbomachinery – Kenneth Hall
• Special Session in his honor, International Congress of CERMODEL – Tomasz Hueckel
• American Physical Society Outstanding Referee of the Physical Review and Physical Review Letters Journals 2016 – Volker Blum
• Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics – Missy Cummings
• Advisor, Acta Mechanica Sinica journal – Earl Dowell
• Best paper award, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society International Conference on Humanoid Robots – Kris Hauser
• Best Paper, IEEE International Conference on Computational Science – Amanda Randles
• Frocht Award, Society for Experimental Mechanics – Lawrence Virgin
• Vice chair & chair-elect, Gordon Research Conference on Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering – Jennifer West
• Executive Council member, International Association for Computational Mechanics, John Dolbow

Early Career Awards

• Named to the World Economic Forum Young Scientist List 2015 – Amanda Randles

University and School Honors

• Faculty Director, B.N. Duke Scholarship Program (Duke University) – Mike Gustafson
• 2016 Dean's Award for Inclusive Excellence in Graduate Education (The Graduate School, Duke University) – MRSEC - Stefan Zauscher, director
• Capers and Marion McDonald Teaching and Research Award (Pratt School) – Jennifer West
• Honorary doctorate in engineering, University of Pretoria (South Africa) – Adrian Bejan
• 2015 Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi – Ashutosh Chilkoti
• Research Impact in Human-Computer Interaction Award, Center for Human-Computer Interaction, Virginia Tech – Regis Kopper
• Honorary doctorate (DSc), Nottingham University (UK) – David Needham

Distinguished Lectureships and Speakerships

• Keynote lecture,  Academy of Europe annual conference – Adrian Bejan
• Invited lecture, New York City Junto Society – Adrian Bejan
• Invited lecture, Alianta Awards Gala – Adrian Bejan
• Keynote speech, Predictive Multiscale Materials Modeling conference (Cambridge University) – Stefano Curtarolo

Media Recognition

• "20 Engineering Management Professors You Should Know," Online Engineering Programs – Hadley Cox, Jeff Glass, and Brad Fox
• Editor's Choice, Journal of Applied Physics – Adrian Bejan

Research and Professional Leadership Awards

• Clemson Award for Basic Research, Society of Biomaterials – Jennifer West
• Highly Cited Researcher, Thomson-Reuters – Jennifer West

Early Career Awards

• Young Investigator Award, Creative and Novel Ideas for HIV Research – Benjamin Yellen

Professional Society Recognition

• Fellow, National Academy of Inventors – Ashutosh Chilkoti
• Fellow, IACM – John Dolbow
• Elected Secretary, USACM – John Dolbow
• Member, Advisory Board of DOE ASCAC – John Bolbow
• Member Spotlight, AIAA Carolinas – Earl Dowell
• Chair, AIMBE College of Fellows – Jennifer West
• 75th Anniversary Gold Medal, ASME Heat Transfer Division – Adrian Bejan
• Boeing/ASME Best Paper Award, AIAA SciTech Conference – Earl Dowell

University and School Honors

• Thomas Langford Lectureship Award (Duke University) – Missy Cummings
• Stansell Family Distinguished Teaching Award (Pratt School) – Jeffrey Glass

Distinguished Lectureships and Speakerships

• Memorial Lecturer, Northwestern University – Jennifer West

Technology and Research Leadership

• Member, Editorial Board of Computational Mechanics – John Dolbow

Early Career

• New Investigator Award by the NC Space Grant – Nico Hotz
• ONR 2014 Young Investigator Award – Michael Zavlanos
• NSF Early CAREER Development Award, ONR 2014 Young Investigator Award, and Invited Lecturer, Gordon Research Conference on the Science of Abrasion – Xuanhe Zhao

Society Member/Fellow Recognition

• Member, Academia Europaea, 75th Anniversary Gold Medal of the ASME Heat Transfer Division, Honorary Doctorate from INSA de Lyon – Adrian Bejan

University and School

• Stansell Distinguished Research Award (Pratt School) – Stefano Curtarolo
• Duke Order of Omega President’s Award and Duke Interfraternity Council Faculty Recognition Award – Michael Gustafson
• Klein Family Distinguished Teaching Award  (Pratt School) – Rebecca Simmons
• 2013 Chandran Lecture in Neuro-Oncology (Pratt School) – Jennifer West

National/International

• Awarded the 2015 Nevada Medal (awarded by the state of Nevada for a preeminent scientist/engineer) – Missy Cummings
• Graduate of ELATE Leadership Program – Linda Franzoni
• Doak Award: International award for the most-cited paper in the past three years for the Journal of Sound Vibration – Brian Mann
• Selected as one of the Top 20 Science & Technology Professors in North Carolina – Neal Simmons

Faculty Early Career Awards

• Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement  Award, Oak Ridge Associated Universities: Nico Hotz
• NSF Early CAREER Award; Early Career Researcher’s Award, AVES Biomaterial Interfaces Division: Xuanhe Zhao  

Research and Professional Leadership Awards

• Robert A. Pritzker Distinguished Lecture Award, Biomedical Engineering Society: Ashutosh Chilkoti
• IGTI J.P. Davis Award, ASME: Robert Kielb and Lawrie Virgin

Professional Society Recognition

• Associate Fellow, World Academy of Arts & Sciences; Honorary Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers: Adrian Bejan  
• Fellow, Controlled Release Society College of Fellows: Ashutosh Chilkoti    
• Full Member, Acoustical Society of America: Linda Franzoni
• Fellow, ASME: Robert Kielb    
• Fellow, American Society for Mechanical Engineers: Brian Mann
• Fellow, Biomedical Engineering Society: Ashutosh Chilkoti
• Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers: Pei Zhong

Faculty Early Career Awards

• Haythornthwaite Research Initiation Grant, American Society of Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mechanics Division: Xuanhe Zhao

Research Awards

• 2011 Clemson Award for Contributions to the Literature: Ashutosh Chilkoti
• New Product Award at the MCEE 2011: Laurens Howle

Professional Society Recognition

• Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers: Laurens Howle
• Honorary Fellow, Romanian Academy: Adrian Bejan
• Fellow of the Institution of Engineers & Shipbuilders in Scotland: Adrian Bejan
• U.S. Delegate, International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics: Linda Franzoni